NONG KHAI — 20 April 2026, A dashcam video has captured a three-year-old child riding a tricycle into the middle of a busy road, prompting a driver to brake suddenly before bystanders rushed in to help.
The footage was posted by Wareerat Pansombun, who recorded the incident at about 14:00 while driving from Nong Khai town towards Phon Phisai district on the Nong Khai–Phon Phisai road at around 70 km/h.
As she approached Ban Hua Hat in Ban Duea subdistrict, she spotted the toddler cycling in the roadway from a distance. She sounded her horn continuously and signalled to three vehicles behind her, which also honked and slowed down.
Two women ran from the roadside and managed to remove the child from the road safely.
Wareerat said the outcome could have been far worse if vehicles had been travelling faster, urging parents to supervise young children closely and not allow them onto busy roads.
The route is typically heavily trafficked, with vehicles travelling at speed, raising the risk of a serious accident if the child had not been seen in time.
Social media users later commented that the child lives about 300 metres from the road near the Mekong River. The people who assisted were not the child’s parents but a food vendor and nearby residents who responded after hearing prolonged car horns.
